Dear families,

This post relates to the mixed 4th/5th grade TAG writing class.

We have been busy in our TAG writing class! Students are…

• working on their creative writing projects, which are now due on March 14. Our rubric is attached (here: WritingIndependentProjectsRubric). Please discuss the rubric with your child.
• beginning the process of research for a research-based article. They have just been exposed to Google Keep as a way to organize the information they are gathering.  Please have them show you the features of Google Keep!
• learning how to identify the parts of sentences and parts of speech
• receiving their persuasive writing back scored this week – please ask your child to show you when they receive their scored essay.

In the past 3 weeks or so on Mondays students have been working with Ms. Brannigan, our visiting TAG teacher, to learn how to identify subject and predicate and the basic parts of speech. We have investigated a few parts of speech in more depth, including nouns, verbs (action vs. linking), and prepositions.

This week, for their grammar work, students are asked to complete several learning tasks:

1. Read both of the packets given by Ms. Brannigan (one is just a reference about types of pronouns, and the other contains sentences 5-10, on which they have assignments to do).
2. Try to memorize 2 types of pronouns: subject pronouns and object pronouns
3. On each sentence in the packet with sentences 5-10:
   1. First line: define the bold word from the sentence
   2. Second line: write all the nouns AND pronouns. Write what type of pronoun each is.
   3. Third line: write the subject and the predicate of the sentence
   4. Fourth line: write all the verbs from the sentence

I’ll work with the students a bit in class throughout the week to clarify their assignments and re-teach the types of pronouns; but by Monday, March 7, they should have sentences 5-10 finished and ready to turn in.